Longue Vue Quotes

#1. There's no protecting anyone," Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. "Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

Ann Patchett

#2. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

Hannibal

#4. How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Emily M. Danforth

#5. I'll spend my first year on the Wall emptying chamber pots if I keep Uncle Ben waiting any longer.

George R R Martin

#6. One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bill Bryson

#7. The work environment can bring out the 'best' or the 'worst' in you.

Abhishek Ratna

#8. I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Alan Alda

#9. My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Jeffrey Tambor

#10. The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

Paul Di Filippo

#11. Mrs. Hilly had gone for the Swindon/Szechuan fusion menu and had steak and chips dim sum followed by hot Fanta in a teapot.

Jasper Fforde

#12. Liberalism means well, but it destroys

Dennis Prager

#13. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Daniel Coyle

#14. Show your children God's love by loving them and others as Christ loves you. Be quick to forgive, don't hold a grudge, look for what's best, and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

Genny Monchamp

#15. What matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13

Alfie Kohn